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Esoteric Nazism. Esoteric Nazism, also known as Esoteric Fascism or Esoteric Hitlerism, refers to a range of mystical interpretations and adaptations of Nazism. After the Second World War, esoteric interpretations of the Third Reich were adapted into new religious movements of white nationalism and neo-Nazism. They included beliefs in finding a ...
Occultism in Nazism. The association of Nazism with occultism occurs in a wide range of theories, speculation, and research into the origins of Nazism and into Nazism's possible relationship with various occult traditions. The "Black Sun" was a symbol used by the SS. It held esoteric and occult connotations, representing a mystical source of ...
Thule Society. The Thule Society ( / ˈtuːlə /; German: Thule-Gesellschaft ), originally the Studiengruppe für germanisches Altertum ('Study Group for Germanic Antiquity'), was a German occultist and Völkisch group founded in Munich shortly after World War I, named after a mythical northern country in Greek legend.
Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity is a book by the historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, in which the author examines post-war Nazi occultism and similar phenomena. It was published by New York University Press in August 2001 ( ISBN 978-0814733264 ) and reissued in paperback ( ISBN 0-8147-3155-4 ).
Later developments in Nazi esotericism. The Thule Society was dissolved still in the 1920s, well before Hitler's rise to power, and the anti-Masonic legislation of 1935 closed down esoteric organisations including völkisch occultist ones. Karl Maria Wiligut, the chief occultist influence on the Nazi establishment, retired in 1939.
Nazism as a political religion. Before 1980, the writers who alluded to the religious aspects of Nazism included Aurel Kolnai, Raymond Aron, Albert Camus, [2] Romano Guardini, Denis de Rougemont, Eric Voegelin, George Mosse, Klaus Vondung and Friedrich Heer. [3] Voegelin's work on political religion was first published in German in 1938.
The Occult Roots of Nazism (1985) Black Sun (2001) [5] [6] Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (15 January 1953 – 29 August 2012) was a British historian and professor of Western esotericism at the University of Exeter , best known for his authorship of several scholarly books on the history of Germany between the World Wars and Western esotericism .
The Occult Roots of Nazism. The Occult Roots of Nazism: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890–1935 is a book about Nazi occultism and Ariosophy by historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, who traces some of its roots back to Esotericism in Germany and Austria between 1880 and 1945. The foreword is by Rohan Butler, who had written The Roots ...